Be The Star You Truly Are!

First let me explain that work was bountiful this month and I allowed myself to post only one entry in May. I’ve been thinking about the topic of money and health (really, money and anything) for the month. I realize that money is something we operate with now and we need to have it to live.

I titled an old post, “Is It Really Only Money That Makes Us Work Harder?” I’ve lately been thinking about money. In terms of how it affects what we do and how we think about our life.

Healthy Wealthy & Wow!

Today I heard a woman talking to her friend in the supermarket. She was telling the woman with her that she wouldn’t buy organic food, even if it meant the items were cleaner and safer, because they cost more. This got me thinking in two different directions.

The first was centered on health.

I would think that, originally, the sprays were originally devised to keep foods fresh and protect them from bug poisons so people would have more food to eat. The food could be shipped from the farmlands to the other areas and still remain relatively fresh. The first sprays were to deter bugs from poisoning the foods. I remember planting and picking vegetables and fruits in my Gramma’s backyard in Brooklyn. We were taught to spray when the mosquitoes came out.

Then we learned there were toxins in the chemicals used to spray the foods and it paid to have food grown naturally. Growing and shipping the natural products became more expensive than farming the sprayed foods.

What fascinated me was the woman’s having more concern about her money than about her health. She looked as though spending two or three more dollars wouldn’t make her move onto the street.

To make a long story shorter, I’ll let you know right now that I realized that mankind had to make up money so the man who fished could have a suit that fit and the tailor could have a fish.

When mankind started developing everything was made in once place or, at least one community. Some people did the farming some the sewing, some the furniture making, etc. etc. The farmer, or animal raiser would build his own house and his woman would sew clothes. When it became more complicated and towns grew larger, the animal caretaker could bring cut up cow pieces (or whatever animal could live in your weather zone) to the person who could easily build furniture, or make a suit, etc. and trade. As it got more complicated and people spread out more each family had to find people who made what they wanted and wanted what they made so they could trade. When that got difficult they gave the person who made what they wanted a certain number of pebbles. Then that person could take the pebbles to someone who made what he needed.

I can really sense how difficult it got and how a form of exchange had to be developed for people to live. Hence money was invented. Humans made it up to suit our needs. Now mankind is using more and more intricately designed machinery to make what we need.

At the risk of sounding crazy, I’ll say that, at some point the machines won’t even have to be programmed to know how much of anything is needed. They will know and they’ll make it. We’ll have whatever we need and we won’t have to work for it. We’ll “pick it up” – or I bet the machines will even deliver it to us – and that will be that. The machines won”t need money. They’ll know how to repair themselves and/or make new machines when needed.

So, what will humans be needed for? I think we’ll be doing wonderful things beyond what our current comprehension can take in. Of course, this won’t happen in our lifetimes or our grandchildren’s lifetimes…however… we can look at money in a different light.

Thee must be a way to spend out money now on things that will truly better our lives and donate to those less fortunate in ways that have them spending on what’s naturally healthy for them.

If our spending now concentrates on what’s naturally healthy for us (and on medications, etc. only when absolutely necessary), I believe we’ll all be healthier and thereby be more able to earn money. I believe we’ll have enough for clothing and entertainment and we won’t have the feeling we need to be lavish in order to be accepted and loved.

Bobbie Horowitz Productions, Inc.

Remember that we made money up. How do you decide which entertainments to spend money on? Do you decide according to what you want to see or according to the best priced deal? Read my Monthly Entertainment Tip. I speak about the topic of Money & Entertainment this month.

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BOBBIE’S BIO

Bobbie began her theatrical career as an actress, studying with Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel. She appeared in over thirty NYC productions in theaters such as: Playwright’s Horizon’s, AMAS Rep., Hudson Guild, The Gene Frankel Theater, TNC, All Souls’ Players, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory. She also appeared in regional theater and summer stock, working with Jose Ferrer, Katherine Houghton and others.

Bobbie founded and served as Co-Executive/Artistic Director (1999-2006) of The Times Square Group, a not for profit, arts-in-education company, bringing arts education to students in New York City public high and junior high schools. The schools served ranged from arts focused schools to special schools for troubled students.

A half of the comic musical writing/performing team Horowitz & Spector, she won a MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) for their show, Whatever Happened To the Kids From Brooklyn? Their songs have received NY Daily News, Billboard and ASCAP awards and have been played on theatrical musical country radio stations. The pair can be seen on You Tube. Tony winner, Chuck Cooper recorded their song, Together America”
. Bobbie now writes for cabaret performers and is writing a musical. She wrote a musical, The S.C.R.A.P. Workshop with John Meyer and was asked to write a special tribute the top earner of Isagenix. She performed the song at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

She was Executive Producer of Drama Desk Awards 1999 & 2000 and Associate Producer in 2001. Bernadette Peters, Bebe Neuwirth and Lily Tomlin were the hosts respectively. As a commercial theater producer she presented, The Betrayal of Nora Blake, at The Jermyn Street Theatre in London, where it’s sold-out, extended production earned rave reviews and later at The Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach, where it was voted 'Best Musical” by The Palm Beach Post. In past years she produced Angel Street, A Black Girl Talks To God, Victims of Duty and The Great American Backstage Musical off and off-off Broadway.

Bobbie produced major events, among them the first annual Soap Opera Day Celebration along with Mayor’s Koch’s Office of Film, Television and Broadcasting, Ruth Warrick’s Confessions of Phoebe Tyler Book-Launch with guest Ruby Keeler, the Mr. Bill in Space Book-Launch for Real-Good Productions and a Salute to Viveca Lindfors. She co-produced the Farewell To Bowie Kuhn event, which included speakers Howard Cosell, Sonny Werblin and President Emeritus Gerald Ford for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

As an Image Consultant, Bobbie serves private clients and has given seminars at Queens College, NYU School of Film & Television, The NY State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, T. Schreiber Studio, the Learning Annex, trade conventions at The Javitz Center, for corporations and, most recently through The Network. Her article MAXIMPACT was published in the AICI news, She co-wrote the presentation for an Escada fashion tour and was quoted in Seventeen Magazine. Her new book, Find Your Mini Qs: Reveal the Star You Truly Are at 50,60,70 & Beyond! will be in print summer 2010 and her book You’re Looking At A Winner is being updated. She was VP-Education of the Tri-State Chapter of The Association of Image Consultants, International from 1991-1993.

Bobbie was educated in the NYC Public School system, at The New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University (Class Marshall) and at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.